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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5172 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 49 of 352 02 October 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Il faut que je finisse ce livre French for Marketing avant le 11 novembre. Il y restent encore 18 textes avec des exercises. Chaque texte avec ses exercises a environ 10 pages. je lis toujours mon premier livre en français, je suis maintenant page 149, sur un total de 351. Je continue á chercher des mots inconnus dans le dictionnaire, je crois qu'il y a des mots que j'ai regardé 4 ou 5 fois, mais ce n'est pas quand-même déroutant de suivre l'histoire. Quelquefois quand je n'ai pas de dictionnaire avec moi, je suis l'histoire sans aucun problème.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5172 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 50 of 352 04 October 2012 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today I came across the expression "De surcroît", meaning "Besides,...".
Are there other expressions that are more used, more colloquial? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5172 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 51 of 352 05 October 2012 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still reading the same book, only afew pages a day. Today I learned 6 pages without a dictionary. There were some words I missed but they didn't hinder me from understanding at all. Even at the chapter's title, there was the word "louange" I couldn't understand, but I just checked it now and figured out I guessed it right.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4713 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 52 of 352 05 October 2012 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
Besides that = "mis à part ça" (from mettre, so setting apart that) Besides (=what's more) = "en plus" Edited by tarvos on 05 October 2012 at 5:57pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5172 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 53 of 352 05 October 2012 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Les derniers mots du texte "iront certainement en diminuant" forment une
expression litteraire qui marque une certaine continuite dans Faction. Autres exemples : La situation va en s'aggravant/Sa sante va en s'ameliorant/La route va en s'elargissant. Does that mean French used to have a continuous tense with the gerund and it became outdated and literary? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4713 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 54 of 352 05 October 2012 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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En + gerund is always used as a temporal way of denoting things.
En attendant les résultats, je regardais la fenêtre... (while waiting for the results... etc). Edited by tarvos on 05 October 2012 at 9:42pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5172 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 55 of 352 05 October 2012 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yep I'm used to that, but the sentences I mentioned are different and at the book it is said they are more literary.
La situation va en s'aggravant. In Portuguese, that would be a preferable usage, not a literary one: A situação vai se agravando. In English you'd use the verb "to keep" and not the standard continuous tense with 'to be': The situation keeps getting worse. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4713 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 56 of 352 05 October 2012 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I guess it's just a particular way of expressing things. I don't recall having seen it
before, but maybe it's common in different kinds of texts. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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